Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill reporter Alex Gangitano checked out the annual 17th Street High Heel Race, a drag parade that this year protested Virginia GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock's positions on gay rights and gun control. Later in the week, Roll Call was on the scene for another protest, this one outside the Trump International Hotel. And D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will be depicted in the new Amazon series, "Good Girls Revolt."

Stephen Colbert tapes a segment for his show as Caesar Flickerman from "The Hunger Games" on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Sunday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

While every major news outlet in America is covering the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a way to frame the national debate around vital issues that face America, Stephen Colbert and The Onion will use comedy as a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.

Of course, in this bizarro election year, it might be hard to tell the satire from the real thing.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan keeps saying he won't run for president, but he has this habit of showing up in the middle of things, like being counterprogramming for the news networks' coverage of a huuuge presidential primary night .

On Tuesday night, as New York's returns showed victories for two unpopular front-runners — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton — there was Ryan on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."